1. Finding the location of a marriage using GMI, FreeBMD and other sources
Andrew Millard

2. Marriage entry of interest

3. First download all entries from the district and quarter from FreeBMD

4. Copy the tab-delimited text file and paste into Excel
Use text-to-columns if needed

5. Sort the entries by page number

6. Add a formula to count the number of entries with the same page number
And another to calculate the difference between page numbers, and fill down

7. Use conditional formatting to highlight incomplete pages with less than eight names …

8. … and where the page numbers change by more than one

9. Easy to see the probable page numbers where the marriages from each church end

10. Search the GMI for that quarter and volume
Only two entries – not very hopeful!

11. Enter those churches against the page numbers
Ann SINFIELD seems to be only a couple of churches away

12. Go to the GENUKI list for that RD
17 Civil Parishes in 1850 (which probably match Ecclesiastical parishes in this rural area)

13. Identify potential churches (but don’t know exact method of alphabetical sort in GRO index)
Some are on IGI, so…
Flitton
Flitwick
Haynes
Higham Gobion
Houghton Conquest
Lidlington
Lower Gravenhurst
Marston Moretaine

14. … use Hugh Wallis IGI batch number site
Check out Marston Moretaine and Lower Gravenhurst for that year

15. Enter that church against the page number
Most likely Houghton Conquest or Lidlington
Flitton
Flitwick
Haynes
Higham Gobion
Houghton Conquest
Lidlington
Lower Gravenhurst
Marston Moretaine

16. Actually this marriage is on the IGI too
A shortlist of two parishes from an original 17 – pretty good for a few minutes work
Not always as good as this – sometimes order of churches is difficult to establish
Actually this marriage is on the IGI too
And the order of churches is unexpected: the church between Flitton and Haynes is not Flitwick but Upper Gravenhurst